This past week has been the height of the tulip bloom here in Skagit. I’d been driving back and forth to the art show at Rexville, keeping an eye on the blooms, and finally one morning I took myself out to the fields at sunrise and watched the morning fog roll over the tulips and the newly plowed soil. Then I took the pup out to Padilla Bay for our walk, where we saw the fog bank retreat out to the islands.